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Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth;
keep watch over the door of my lips.
Do not incline my heart to any evil thing,
to practice wicked deeds
with men who do iniquity;
and do not let me eat of their delicacies.
Let a righteous one strike me in kindness,
and let him chasten me.
It is oil for my head;[a] let not my head refuse.
For still my prayer is against their evil deeds.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 141:5 Or “It is choice oil”